PERI: Toxic 100 Index

Toxic 100 Air Polluters Index (2020 Report, Based on 2018 Data)

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Toxic 100 Air Rank	Corporation	Toxic score (pounds released x toxicity x population exposure)	Millions of pounds of toxic air releases	Millions of pounds of toxic incineration transfers	EJ: Poor Share	EJ: Minority Share	% of toxic score from a single facility
82	International Paper	249,597	35.47	<0.01	20%	41%	19%
24	Koch Industries	1,550,053	28.85	1.89	18%	52%	42%
90	Nutrien Ltd.	225,918	13.29	<0.01	15%	39%	65%
21	Exxon Mobil	1,798,756	8.32	0.26	22%	70%	24%
77	Graphic Packaging	264,011	7.35		30%	42%	79%
5	Dow Inc.	10,641,781	5.46	10.04	20%	42%	21%
1	LyondellBasell	29,231,718	5.29	3.15	17%	68%	82%
4	BASF	11,936,031	5.26	8.29	20%	35%	44%
9	Eastman Chemical	3,441,572	5.14	1.94	20%	44%	79%
33	Valero Energy	933,866	4.85	0.04	21%	64%	39%
32	Marathon Petroleum	1,132,246	4.55	0.14	20%	63%	46%
31	Freeport-McMoRan	1,255,205	4.19	<0.01	27%	58%	97%
36	Phillips 66	812,314	3.49	0.02	17%	57%	30%
47	Westlake Chemical	618,653	3.15	0.92	16%	29%	36%
10	Royal Dutch Shell	3,407,149	2.94	0.09	16%	52%	52%
13	Berkshire Hathaway	2,726,538	2.24	0.55	17%	31%	24%
55	American Electric Power	489,482	2.24		14%	9%	43%
52	PBF Energy	516,711	1.99	0.01	19%	63%	53%
39	Chevron	759,988	1.92	0.08	17%	74%	60%
54	United States Steel	489,723	1.76	8.05	24%	53%	46%
17	Ashland Inc.	1,963,782	1.60	0.08	20%	54%	72%
63	Formosa Plastics	364,055	1.42	6.94	24%	72%	84%
7	General Electric	3,954,355	1.31	0.06	18%	39%	33%
61	Goodyear Tire & Rubber	385,674	1.14	0.06	22%	76%	69%
56	BP	461,943	1.08	0.02	20%	40%	65%
40	ArcelorMittal	726,673	1.07	0.07	27%	61%	26%
26	Kennametal	1,481,713	1.03		14%	26%	63%
70	Owens Corning	308,462	0.98	<0.01	18%	44%	24%
97	Asahi Kasei	200,235	0.88	<0.01	14%	19%	100%
30	Evonik Industries	1,289,893	0.81	2.67	19%	31%	50%
37	Solvay	798,653	0.80	2.91	16%	57%	36%
95	Total S.A.	208,738	0.78	<0.01	18%	44%	90%
6	Celanese	5,910,376	0.75	8.52	15%	59%	100%
64	Ingredion	346,872	0.65	<0.01	16%	47%	60%
28	Occidental Petroleum	1,385,291	0.65	8.68	18%	70%	44%
57	Carlyle Group	437,710	0.60	0.16	12%	39%	20%
100	Spirit Aerosystems Holdings	190,429	0.60		21%	46%	100%
62	Nucor	376,403	0.58		19%	41%	34%
35	Linde	841,011	0.56	<0.01	23%	48%	99%
65	American Industrial Partners	338,800	0.55		10%	10%	100%
19	Albemarle	1,905,145	0.52	1.52	19%	73%	73%
88	HeidelbergCement	228,673	0.50		9%	43%	46%
69	Husky Energy	309,570	0.50	<0.01	20%	29%	97%
3	Huntsman	14,244,096	0.45	6.78	15%	47%	57%
12	National Oilwell Varco	2,920,067	0.45		15%	56%	57%
87	Sasol	229,726	0.43	0.08	15%	25%	100%
44	Allegheny Technologies	647,460	0.35	0.02	13%	13%	40%
27	Daikin	1,435,413	0.31	45.60	14%	61%	78%
58	PPG Industries	427,692	0.29	0.31	14%	34%	35%
2	Boeing	20,061,951	0.25	0.02	15%	35%	100%
93	Cleveland-Cliffs	213,674	0.24	0.07	24%	26%	34%
73	Cornerstone Building Brands	296,125	0.23	0.01	16%	56%	40%
25	Becton Dickinson	1,498,073	0.20	<0.01	19%	53%	55%
49	Parker-Hannifin	603,876	0.19	<0.01	16%	22%	72%
38	Ametek	761,463	0.18		11%	35%	92%
60	Deere	406,676	0.18	<0.01	22%	37%	88%
74	Whirlpool	286,162	0.17		16%	14%	48%
75	Assa Abloy	283,354	0.16	<0.01	15%	45%	47%
29	Akzo Nobel	1,354,130	0.15	0.13	19%	70%	62%
79	Huntington Ingalls Industries	257,207	0.15	0.07	23%	68%	88%
68	Illinois Tool Works	330,279	0.14	0.20	9%	42%	71%
14	Mitsui	2,673,498	0.12	0.01	25%	67%	100%
96	ABB Ltd.	207,646	0.11	0.01	14%	22%	87%
80	Leggett & Platt	255,501	0.11	<0.01	8%	36%	97%
18	Northrop Grumman	1,929,303	0.11	0.11	19%	15%	99%
23	Rio Tinto	1,664,647	0.11	<0.01	9%	30%	91%
94	Oshkosh Corp.	210,931	0.10		16%	11%	99%
22	Howmet Aerospace	1,780,490	0.10	0.05	23%	51%	35%
72	Raytheon Technologies	302,461	0.07	<0.01	13%	31%	43%
81	Trinity Industries	255,312	0.07		23%	40%	85%
11	Ecolab	3,373,523	0.07	2.72	16%	79%	97%
84	Commercial Metals	246,684	0.06		31%	43%	65%
76	Johnson & Johnson	264,099	0.05	0.03	13%	46%	67%
48	Kingspan PLC	616,315	0.05		10%	18%	100%
91	Royal DSM	221,552	0.05	1.65	14%	22%	100%
42	Tenneco	696,148	0.05	<0.01	17%	34%	39%
46	Carpenter Technology	631,906	0.04		17%	38%	80%
67	Targa Resources	332,436	0.04		23%	86%	100%
92	Henkel	217,184	0.04	0.06	24%	48%	72%
86	Eaton	237,747	0.03	<0.01	11%	22%	82%
53	Baxter International	500,792	0.03	0.19	14%	6%	100%
83	Compass Group	247,597	0.03		11%	27%	99%
8	Terumo	3,811,676	0.03	0.05	10%	32%	100%
16	TMS International	2,157,246	0.03		29%	70%	53%
98	Medline Industries	199,675	0.03		13%	51%	87%
99	Carpenter Company	195,516	0.02	0.08	15%	64%	69%
89	BAE Systems	228,432	0.02		24%	67%	62%
45	Pentair	642,355	0.02		20%	51%	100%
71	Komatsu	308,225	0.02	<0.01	22%	56%	56%
66	Medtronic	334,445	0.02	0.09	15%	48%	94%
15	Kubota	2,308,809	0.01		16%	43%	100%
50	O'Neal Industries	569,458	0.01		25%	56%	92%
43	Emerson Electric	692,557	0.01		18%	40%	61%
20	SPX FLOW	1,877,825	0.01		14%	35%	99%
59	TechnipFMC	426,343	<0.01		19%	74%	100%
41	Lincoln Electric Holdings	715,540	<0.01	<0.01	14%	72%	99%
85	Cardinal Health	242,307	<0.01		27%	62%	100%
78	Zimmer Biomet	262,031	<0.01		15%	54%	89%
34	Edwards Lifesciences	901,404	<0.01		48%	96%	100%
51	Middleby	529,837	<0.01		12%	21%	92%

Explanatory notes (For details, see the technical notes).

This edition of the Toxic 100 Air ranks companies by comparative chronic human health risk from air pollutants directly released or transferred to incinerators (and not destroyed) from large facilities in the US in 2018.

RSEI score: Estimated population chronic health human health risk from air releases and incineration transfers reported to the US Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) for the 2018 Reporting Year, as computed by the US EPA's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators (RSEI ver. 2.3.8) from quantity released, toxicity of chemicals, and population exposure. Data are adjusted by the Corporate Toxics Information Project (CTIP) for subsequent revisions to TRI data, including where available revisions to the share of hexavalent chromium in chromium releases.
Source: US EPA and Corporate Toxics Information Project (CTIP).

Quantity of toxic air releases and incineration transfers: Millions of pounds of toxic chemicals released to the air on-site or transferred offsite for incineration in the TRI 2018 Reporting Year, without adjustment for toxicity or population exposure.
Source: US EPA.

Environmental Justice (EJ): Poor Share and Minority Share: Shares of the total population health risk borne by people living below the poverty line or by people in minority racial/ethnic groups. In the U.S. population, 13 percent live below the poverty line and 39 percent are members of minority racial/ethnic groups.
Sources: US EPA, US Census, and CTIP.

Coverage: This table presents the RSEI companies that appear on the Forbes World's Largest Public Companies 2020 list, the Forbes America's Largest Private Companies 2019 ranking, the Fortune 500 list for 2020, the Fortune Global 500 for 2020, or the S&P 500 as of 8/22/2020. Individual facilities are assigned to corporate parents on the basis of the most current information on their ownership structure as of late 2020.
Source: CTIP.>

The links from each parent name lead to an application that gives detailed facility and chemical information about the company. You can also search for companies not on the Toxic 100 Air. For more information on the data, see the technical notes.